Best Buy has announced the release of the Little Buddy Tracker to its Insignia product line. The Little Buddy Tracker helps you keep track of your child’s location. All you need to do is drop this little device into their backpack or lunch box.
The Little Buddy Tracker then uses GPS and cellular technology to [...]

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Is Facebook currently under attack or is it suffering from a major glitch in the system? Many users have noticed that the name of their school has been mysteriously changed to Vidyartha College.
The “Vidyartha College Facebook Virus”, as it is being called right now, was first detected on Tuesday afternoon and is now moving [...]

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If you receive a Notice of Unreported Income email from the IRS, beware…the note is a phishing scam.
The fake IRS message regarding income purports itself as a legitimate IRS Notice called a CP2000.
The note claims to be from no-reply@irs.gov but note that this is merely a phony email address.
The Notice of Unreported [...]

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There is word this Labor Day morning that several Facebook users have been infected by an insidious new application.
The Facebook Fan Check application claims to be able to show you how many friends you have and then allow you to post this within your page via RSS.
Once you allow the application, however, you are greeted [...]

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A botnet of about 50,000 infected computers has been attacking U.S. government websites and causing trouble for businesses in both the United States and South Korea.
The attack started this past Saturday it knocking out the U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s website on Monday and Tuesday.  Other government agencies have also been targeted, including the [...]

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Microsoft has taken the unusual step of warning users about a serious computer security hole it hasn’t yet fixed.
The vulnerability disclosed on Monday affects Internet Explorer users whose computers are running Windows XP or Windows Server 2003.
The “hole” allows hackers to remotely take control of victims’ machines. The victims can become infected by merely [...]

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A large ISP has said that data for as many as 100,000 websites was totally destroyed by hackers who targeted a zero-day vulnerability in a popular virtualization application.
Technicians at the UK-based Vaserv.com are still attempting to recover data over 24 hours after the hackers were able to obtain root access to the company’s system, according [...]

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Perhaps Twitter is getting tired of the lawsuits.  Perhaps they realized it was time to make the site more secure.
Whatever the motivation, Twitter has just announced a “verified accounts beta” program.
Basically, there will be a special seal on any account that Twitter verifies as as authentic account.  This seal will appear at the top of [...]

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YouTube partners are being hit with a new phishing scam in the form of e-mails that appear to come YouTube teams.  The message of course wants you to reply with your YouTube login info.
The e-mails appear to be evolving…the first wave was pretty amateur looking but the new iterations are much more believeable.
YouTube is aware [...]

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Here’s a warning for all Windows users…and the best part is that you can’t (easily) do a damned thing about it.
Apparently, what should be a fairly ordinary security update for a Microsoft Windows component that’s already loaded onto millions of computers, has also installed an extra “care package” for those of us using Mozilla Firefox.
A [...]

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